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Study: Some Microbes Could Survive on Moon
Researchers found five human-associated microbes could survive at least 24 hours in shadowed lunar regions, raising contamination concerns for future crewed missions.
WASHINGTON — The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other living organisms from Earth, with its lack of breathable air, extreme temperatures and exposure to relentless space radiation and energetic particles. That is why…
Sterile as a matter of fact: if astronauts soon land at the lunar South Pole, microbes introduced by them could survive there – at least for a few days.